Christmas holidays in IT

The time of Christmas holidays has come!
Everybody tries to make these holidays special… Especially it concerns IT companies. All leading IT companies try to make something unusual. For example: go for an outing having different competitions, go for a skiing ramble or just go to the restaurant with all the staff.
Oxagile tries to make this holiday very comfortable, convenient and domestic for each employee .
Almost every employee helped to illuminate and decorate offices. And our friendly staff say “goodbye” to 2008 and see 2009 in!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009!

Oxagile web development team wishes everybody Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Let all your dreams come true and all projects be successful. Let the next year brings new ideas and good partners to implement them.

The number of IPTV users grows up every day more and more

Today IPTV is very popular, and grows up very fast. According to the statistic in 2006 in Asia the quantity of IPTV users were already 2,6 million people. In Asia the leading countries in IPTV industry considers Japan and Hong Kong.
According to the researches of “Infonetics Research” company, in 2010 the quantity of Internet TV software clients will be 48 million people. But companies, which masters IPTV industry face with a lot of technical problems, which can’t grant IPTV service in a high level.

So… speaking about IPTV future, according to the forecasts by 2011 and 2012 the quantity of subscribers for IPTV services will be 60 million peoples.
In conclusion I can say, that IPTV growth waits its time in the nearest future!

Business with Oxagile… and not only business

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Choosing a partner company for outsourcing

When choosing a partner you want to draw attention to a number of important factors:

1. Do they have the quality management system? Your manager is recommended to visit personally a company-applicant and inspect the company.

2. Does the company have the experience in similar projects? Positive and negative experiences are of the same value. To clarify this you need to keep in touch with other organizations and share the relevant information.

3. What are the qualifications of the company’s management you want to work with? The important role is played by the leadership, different styles can lead to serious disagreements.

4. Is a partner team professional and stable? You can view the company’s summary, interview the members of the team, ask the availability of certificates, etc.

5. Can your partner work under contingencies? In particular, you should inquire about the possibility of increasing the number of people engaged in the project, their willingness to work at weekends.

Average business morning… with Oxagile

Good morning… Good day… Here in Oxagile we don’t differentiate our customers. We are trying to do as much as possible to help you in your everyday business. We are really custom-oriented software development company…

- IPTV, did you hear about it? – Oh… No… Maybe let’s explore what is IPTV?!

So, the best way – is to start from IPTV definition:
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a television is transmitted using Internet Protocol all over network infrastructure. A general definition of IPTV is television content that, instead of being delivered through traditional radio and cable formats, is received by the viewer through the technologies used for computer networks.

So in few words – IPTV is a new generation of Television.

The main merit of IPTV – is interaction of video services and availability of wide range of additional services, such as Video on Demand (VoD), TVoIP, Time Shifted TV, Network Personal Video Recorder, Electronic Program Guide (EPG), Near Video on Demand. Besides, IPTV include a package of additional services. They are: Video Telephony, Voting, Information Portals, Web, Games, MOD KOD.

A little from History of IPTV:

In 1994, ABC’s World News Now was the first television show to be broadcast over the Internet, using the CU-SeeMe videoconferencing software.

The term IPTV first appeared in 1995 with the founding of Precept Software by Judith Estrin and Bill Carrico. Precept designed and built an internet video product named “IP/TV”. IP/TV was an MBONE compatible Windows and Unix based application that moved single and multi-source audio/video traffic, ranging from low to DVD quality, using both unicast and IP multicast RTP/RTCP.

In 2006, AT&T launched its U-Verse IPTV service, comprising a national head end and regional video-serving offices. AT&T offered over 300 channels in 11 cities with more to be added in 2007 and beyond. While using IP protocols, AT&T has built a private IP network exclusively for video transport.
Today almost all plots of land penetrate IPTV. Streaming video software today more and more become part of everyday’s life.

Average Salary of Developers in various countries

The question of the “Salary” is one of the most interesting and also mysterious question that almost every person is taking an active interest in discussion when pertinent time was come. And almost every person wants to know the great secret – salary of his colleagues to compare with own salary (may be boss underestimated his skills and the time to do meeting with boss is come), but how can he ask them?

Salary is also a very private theme to have a talk about. We try to lift the veil of mystery from this question and you will know not only about the salary of your colleagues but will have a possibility to compare your own salary with salary of developers in various countries. I hope you will take a good time while reading this
article.

First of all, let’s gossip about the salary of our neighbours, then will travel to America and the sweetest information about the salary in our country will leave in the end.:)

The software outsourcing market during the global financial crisis

The information technology industry today is an integral part of every sphere in the world. Belarus, Russia, Ukraine also did not become exception here. Over the past few years, many international and domestic companies came to the IT market. The high growth of this segment has led in turn to the competitive job market. It is therefore not surprising that for several years we have shortages of qualified personnel and wage growth. The most popular professionals of the sector – are middle-level managers, system administrators, Java, PHP,.Net programmers, Computer Systems engineers, testers, webmasters, a systems integrators. However, you can take that level of salary of IT-specialists reached its maximum, or close to it.

An additional factor there is a global financial crisis that has affected the major players in the IT market. However, we are not expecting major losses, mass layoffs or budget cuts in IT in the near future.

The reason – it is the role of IT-industry business and the specifics of the work. First, many IT-projects are long-term and budgets for companies implementing information technology products are approved in advance, so IT-companies have orders and projects for the same period. Secondly, IT specialisation (like development of Internet TV software solutions) increases the efficiency of the company, which is an essential factor in the crisis.